Never hesitate to take what you think are small things to God; after all, EVERYTHING is small to God.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

When it comes to words, rather than using our own voice, authentic and unpracticed, we steal someone else's to shield our fear.

The Word is light and the Holy Spirit is oxygen

In great troubles, we learn to trust in God.

I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly.

I cannot - nor will not - be ordinary. I have to keep training and seeking and growing. I have to stay hungry. It is my will and so has become my nature.

A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.

We have a lot that we believe is in the best interests of our country,and I'm looking forward to working with Barack Obama during the campaign and then on after the inauguration.

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

I'm always looking in the lighting to tell the story in a different way than it actually looks in real life because it's, for me, more contrast sometimes has to mean it's softer than normal.

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.